Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 41

Now, as he was looking at the flowers, Laili saw Chumman Basa coming towards them, and she read in his eyes that he meant to kill her husband and seize her.

Who acts: man, Laili, Chumman · What happens: look, see, come, read, mean, kill · To what, where: Chumman, eyes, husband, Laili

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Laili, Chumman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 saw	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 looking	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 saw	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flowers	det
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
11	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Chumman	Chumman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
14	Basa	Basa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Chumman	flat
15	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 saw	xcomp
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 coming	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 read	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 read	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 read	nsubj
21	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 eyes	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eyes	nmod:poss
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 read	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 meant	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 meant	nsubj
27	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 read	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 kill	mark
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 meant	xcomp
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 husband	nmod:poss
31	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kill	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seize	cc
33	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 kill	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seize	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	man				at the flowers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme
2	see	past	Laili	Chumman		now		tree rules
3	come	gerund	Chumman not said here				towards flowers = flower	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location
4	read	past	Laili		man's eyes			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean	past	man					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	Laili's husband				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
7	seize	infinitive	man not said here	Laili				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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